The Long March
Massive Chinese computer hacking stealing European, US proprietary trade secrets.
“What the general public hears about — stolen credit card numbers, somebody hacked LinkedIn — that’s the tip of the iceberg, the unclassified stuff,” said Shawn Henry, former executive assistant director of the FBI in charge of the agency’s cyber division until leaving earlier this year. “I’ve been circling the iceberg in a submarine. This is the biggest vacuuming up of U.S. proprietary data that we’ve ever seen. It’s a machine.”
What started as assaults on military and defense contractors has widened into a rash of attacks from which no corporate entity is safe, say U.S. intelligence officials, who are raising the alarm in increasingly dire terms.
The networks of major oil companies have been harvested for seismic maps charting oil reserves; patent law firms for their clients’ trade secrets; and investment banks for market analysis that might impact the global ventures of state-owned companies, according to computer security experts who asked not to be named and declined to give more details.
Hah. The next war will start with everyone who is targeted computer’s not working, or unable to connect to the internet.
Gas, Elec, water and pipelines will stop flowing, blow up. get corrupted, etc…
Game over. Thank you for playing. Enjoy the dark and quiet.
We graciously accept your surrender/withdrawal under our reasonable terms in return for the recipe to restart and prevent your population from rioting/starving/freezing/ dieing of thirst. You have 24 hours.
Meanwhile, every commercial negotiation will be under cut, etc… because one side will know both sides.
Seems like a great opportunity for a major, targeted disinfo campaign. Put a little dye in the water, see who tries to take advantage of the info on their side, etc.
By the way, they try to reverse engineer everything, with often hilarious results. The only successes they generally have point straight back to Beijing. Their commercial efforts on there own are often just sad. Hell, even when you ASK them to copy something exactly, and give them every diagram, spec, material composition, form, and function, they will still screw the pooch and make a substandard replica that is not fit for sale.
” and give them every diagram, spec, material composition, form, and function, they will still screw the pooch and make a substandard replica that is not fit for sale.”
The Japanese had that problem for a couple of decades after WWII…
They got over it.
Korea a disaster area before and just after the Korean War, most of it barely 19th century, South Korea got over it.
It’ll take the Chinese a generation too. They’ve already come a long way.
Back when my own ancestors dressed in furs and blue paint (no, not last year, a long time ago) the Chinese were settling in to maybe their 3,000th year of civilization. Those who think they’re a mere imitative culture incapable of brilliant innovation and technological mastery are foolishly mistaken. Something akin, I suspect, to the wide-spread belief in this country in 1941 that the typical Japanese soldier was a buck toothed, bespectacled midget who would throw down his chopsticks and run when the first American GI showed up with a gun. We got an unpleasant surprise.
The new evil empire.
Why we are educating them is beyond me. Why we are enriching them is even more incomprehensible.
The pop culture, fractured Japanese phrase the appeared in the video game was “all your base [singular] belong to us”.
h ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us